Category: Agriculture
SICCI promotes honey in New Zealand
Solomon Islands honey products Through the partnership between the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Pacific Trade New Zealand, SICCI has promoted Solomon Islands honey ... Read More
Solomon Islands cocoa market has potential
Cocoa pods ready for harvest. Photo credit: New Mail. Solomon Islands has to ensure that cocoa, as its raw product, is well-looked after to determine ... Read More
Senior Agriculture officer arrested in latest Janus catch
Police Commissioner Matthew Varley Task Force Janus led by the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, RSIPF, has made another arrest, this time a senior public ... Read More
Former builder turns to commercial tilapia farming
Jimmy Sigepitu "I started with only four fish and now, I have around a thousand." Situated just outside the Western Provincial capital Gizo is ... Read More
Fund shortage hampers plans to open Makira Cocoa factory
Cocoa pods ready for harvest. Photo credit: New Mail. Shortage of funds has delayed the process to establish a cocoa factory in Makira-Ulawa Province. Director ... Read More
Coconut Rhinoceros beetle threatens Shortland Islands plantations.
An example of a coconut tree ruined by the rhinoceros beetle Residents of three villages in Shortland Island are worried, their copra production will drop ... Read More
Improve cocoa quality, farmers told.
Farmers that attended the demonstrations today. Around 40 cocoa farmers from around the country attended a cocoa grafting demonstration and training at Alligator Creek cocoa ... Read More